David,
Just send me your address and I'll send you 4 lugs and nuts for your car.
No charge. Just promise me you won't let any good 'ol boy grease monkey put an
air tool to them.
Mike MacLean Supercharged 60 Sprite
SDOliner@aol.com wrote:
> OK guys, first off, I drove the car all of five miles back home. I am really
> not so stupid to driving it. I did undo my good lug nuts, and actually have
> the wheel blocked up. I plan on having the wheel rebalanced, just to make
> sure it still runs true. In retrospect I should have had the car towed home,
> but that is history now.
> This was supposed to be a New York State Inspection, where one front wheel is
> pulled off to check the brake shoes. I really wasn't taking the car in for
> any work.
> The shop is Speed's Garage, in Mellenville, NY, which is just outside of
> Philmont, NY (the birthplace of Ollie North) If you never heard of these
> places you are forgiven. It is a classic dusty and rusty garage. It also
> happens to be on the way to golf club, which is why I dropped the Bugeye off
> for inspection.
> I think the job qualifications here is that your last name is Speed. These
> guys do run a fairly mean Chevy at the dirt track in Lebanon Valley. (third
> in Mr. Dirt Cup last year). So they are used to breaking and fixing stuff.
> Skip Speed did offer to fix what he had done. He showed me the new metric lug
> and nut he picked up at Napa. I told him the car wasn't metric, but he
> assured me that all foreign cars were. No sense trying to win that argument.
> Anyway all I want to do is replace the lugs and thanks for the part number.
> This did not appear in my Moss (SPM-12) catalog nor my Vicky Brits (SM.36)
> David Oliner
> 60 Bugeye
> 67 TR 4A
>
> PS I had my beast of a Triumph inspected at Speed's without incident.
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